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WASHINGTON —
Navy Undersecretary Thomas B. Modly has returned from a trip to Europe in which he visited vastly different countries facing different challenges -- Norway and Romania -- but with the same feeling about their alliance with the United States.

WASHINGTON —
The world’s preeminent defensive alliance is readying to demonstrate its capabilities in its largest exercise since 2002 with Exercise Trident Juncture, said Navy Adm. James Foggo, the commander of NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command in Italy.

WASHINGTON —
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis plans to discuss U.S. support to Europe with leaders during visits to Croatia and Norway following the NATO summit in Brussels, Defense Department officials said.

WASHINGTON —
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis thanked his Norwegian counterpart for Norway’s commitment to international security, including the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, during a meeting at the Pentagon.

STUTTGART, Germany —
In a clear sign of the U.S. and Norwegian commitment to NATO, U.S. Marines will continue rotational training and exercises in Norway through 2018, U.S. European Command officials said.

WASHINGTON —
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide reaffirmed the close defense relationship between the United States and Norway during a meeting on the margins of the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

WASHINGTON —
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Norway is a strong, indispensable U.S. security partner bilaterally, within NATO, in the North Atlantic and Arctic, in Afghanistan and as part of the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.